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January 5, 2013

Maintenance matters: The energy cost of HVAC air filters.

Every day your building loses energy efficiency, with occasional improvement as equipment is serviced. The “drift”, if left unchecked, could be as much as 30 percent […]
January 4, 2013

Future Building Management Systems (FBMS)

In a recent article entitled Future Building Management Systems author Jim Sinopoli PE described his vision for a building management system of the future. We think […]
January 3, 2013

Ontario shows the way forward in decreasing electricity demand

January 1, 2013

Cheap oil is needed for economic growth, and we are simply running out of the good, cheap crude.

Energy and economic prosperity go hand in hand. In his post EROI, Insidious Feedbacks, and the End of Economic Growth David Murphy argues that “Cheap oil […]
December 28, 2012

Eliminate work orders to improve building operational efficiency

How many people handle each work order in your organization?   Work orders were designed to help you control costs, but today the work order process […]
December 21, 2012

Let’s have a Merry & Sustainable Christmas!

The best Christmas gift is a better planet for our children.
December 19, 2012

Building sustainability management – a new class of software

BuiltSpace set out to make buildings more sustainable, and discovered that we were creating an entirely new class of software. Sustainability addresses the social, environmental and […]
December 18, 2012

Data visibility drives behavior

December 18, 2012

People working together will allow us to create more sustainable buildings.

December 18, 2012

Making our cities more energy efficient

December 16, 2012

Branded QR codes

QR codes provide an opportunity to connect you with your customers in exciting new ways. In our case, we use QR codes to provide location or […]
December 15, 2012

Property based CRM

When your “customers” are the occupants of buildings, and your responsibilities include service requests, building operations and maintenance, service contractors, occupant comfort, energy, water and waste, […]
December 13, 2012

Buildings aren’t Smart. People are.

It is is people taking action that saves the energy. Building automation, energy management, security systems, maintenance management systems, and other building systems are good collectors […]